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Evidence that proactive distractor suppression does not require attentional resources
Does the suppression of irrelevant visual features require attentional resources? McDonald et al. (2023, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 224–234) proposed that suppression processes are unavailable while a per...
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On preventing capture: Does greater salience cause greater suppression?
It has been proposed that salient objects have high potential to disrupt target performance, and so people learn to proactively suppress them, thereby preventing these salient distractors from capturing attent...
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Infrequent facial expressions of emotion do not bias attention
Despite the obvious importance of facial expressions of emotion, most studies have found that they do not bias attention. A critical limitation, however, is that these studies generally present face distractor...
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Do salient abrupt onsets trigger suppression?
Many studies have indicated that abrupt onsets can capture our attention involuntarily. The present study examined whether task-irrelevant onsets trigger strong suppression of their features, to reduce the abi...
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Oculomotor suppression of abrupt onsets versus color singletons
There is considerable evidence that salient items can be suppressed in order to prevent attentional capture. However, this evidence has relied almost exclusively on paradigms using color singletons as salient ...
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A new technique for estimating the probability of attentional capture
Latency-based metrics of attentional capture are limited: They indicate whether or not capture occurred, but they do not indicate how often capture occurred. The present study introduces a new technique for es...
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On preventing attention capture: Is singleton suppression actually singleton suppression?
It is commonly assumed that salient singletons generate an “attend-to-me signal” which causes suppression to develop over time, eventually preventing capture. Despite this assumption and the name “singleton su...
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Bypassing the central bottleneck with easy tasks: Beyond ideomotor compatibility
Maquestiaux, Lyphout-Spitz, Ruthruff, and Arexis (2020) demonstrated that ideomotor-compatible (IM) tasks (e.g., pressing the left key when an arrow points left) can operate automatically, entirely bypassing t...
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No identification of abrupt onsets that capture attention: evidence against a unified model of spatial attention
Many studies have reported that spatial attention can be involuntarily captured by salient stimuli such as abrupt onsets. These involuntary shifts are often assumed to have the same effects on feature extracti...
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Correction to: Case mixing impedes early lexical access: converging evidence from the masked priming paradigm
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Case mixing impedes early lexical access: converging evidence from the masked priming paradigm
When letters are presented in mixed case (e.g., “PlAnE), word recognition is slowed. This case-mixing effect has been used to argue that early stages of word recognition operate holistically (on the entire vis...
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Open AccessElectrophysiological examination of response-related interference while dual-tasking: is it motoric or attentional?
The possibility that interference between motor responses contributes to dual-task costs has long been neglected, yet is supported by several recent studies. There are two competing hypotheses regarding this r...
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Multiple routes to word recognition: evidence from event-related potentials
We used event-related potentials to determine whether lexical access during semantic processing is achieved solely by the letter-based route, or by both a letter-based and word-based route. Participants determ...
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Ideomotor compatibility enables automatic response selection
A task is ideomotor (IM)-compatible when there is high conceptual similarity between the stimulus and the associated response (e.g., pressing a left key when an arrow points to the left). For such an easy task...
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Attentional dwelling and capture by color singletons
Can salient stimuli—such as color singletons and abrupt onsets—involuntarily capture spatial attention? We previously reported evidence that abrupt onsets can capture attention, but the effects of this capture...
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Dual-task automatization: The key role of sensory–motor modality compatibility
How do people automatize their dual-task performance through bottleneck bypassing (i.e., accomplish parallel processing of the central stages of two tasks)? In the present work we addressed this question, eval...
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Immunity to attentional capture at ignored locations
Certain stimuli have the power to rapidly and involuntarily capture spatial attention against our will. The present study investigated whether such stimuli capture spatial attention even when they appear in ig...
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Susceptible to distraction: Children lack top-down control over spatial attention capture
Considerable evidence has indicated that adults can exert top-down control to avoid distraction by salient-but-irrelevant stimuli. However, relatively little research has explored how this ability develops acr...
